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GRITtv: Emergildo Criollo: Chevron, Clean it Up!

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Emergildo Criollo is an indigenous leader from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. He recorded this message for oil giant Chevron's CEO John Watson: clean up your toxic contamination. In early March 2010, Emergildo traveled from the Amazon to California, to deliver a letter appealing for clean-up, along with 325,000 petitions from supporters in more than 150 countries. Thanks to Rainforest Action Network for the clip.

GRITtv: Got Docs: Sweet Crude

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Oil wasn't discovered in the Niger Delta until the near end of colonial rule. But its discovery, for the people of Nigeria, meant another kind of oppression: money working hand in hand with military rule. This week's featured documentary, Sweet Crude, looks at the consequences of oil extraction for the people and environment of Nigeria.

GRITtv: Ecuador to Chevron: Do The Right Thing

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The Chevron oil company has contributed for years to devastating environmental damage in Ecuador and the Amazon region. Citizens of Ecuador call on new Chevron CEO John Watson to do the right thing and help clean up the damage his company has caused.

GRITtv: World's Most Environmentally Irresponsible Company

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As a result of policies around the tar sands in Alberta, the Royal Bank of Canada has been deemed the World's Most Environmentally Irresponsible company. This video from the Rainforest Action Network explains why.

GRITtv: Sen. Bernie Sanders: Go To The People

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Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has been an outspoken leader in the Senate on everything from the fight for single-payer health care reform to blocking Fed chair Ben Bernanke's reappointment. The Vermont legislator has won election and reelection by continually communicating with and fighting for the people, and he offers his advice to progressives and to President Obama in this exclusive interview with GRITtv.

GRITtv: Antonia Juhasz: Oil Power Preventing Climate Action

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Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Tyranny of Oil", topped by the studio to discuss the "petroleum-filled smokescreen" that is keeping Obama from pushing for real action in Copenhagen, and to call for citizens to help get rid of it.

GRITtv: Cooperation to Save Antarctica

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Heading into Copenhagen, Greenpeace's Kelly Rigg explains how cooperation and action accomplished an impossible goal in Antarctica -- and how it can happen again. Let's hope the politicians making decisions in the next two weeks are listening.

GRITtv: Alec Vs. Global Warming: Brower Youth Awards

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Alec Loorz was inspired by Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" to become an educator on the issue of climate change. Founding his own organization, Kids vs. Global Warming, Alec continues to fight fossil fuels and other contributors to global warming, and encourages his peers to do the same. The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy.

GRITtv: The F Word: Real News Pales Next to Palin

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Palin Palin all the time, and never a peep of complaint. That's the long and short of the news cycle these past few days, but there are just a few stories on which I'd like to see some follow up. Take the one about Peter W. Galbraith, a former UN ambassador who advocated tirelessly for Kurdish independence through scores of op-ed pieces for the New York Times and other outlets, while never disclosing to readers -- or apparently, to editors -- that he stood to benefit, financially, from Kurdish independence.

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